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More info on the Feb 6th California #COVID19 death from @HealthySCC likely community spread washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04…
Await contact tracing and would like to see patients w/ pneumonia diagnosis in Jan/Feb have their stored blood samples analyzed, virus sequenced, dig deep into this
The problem is this may not have been the "First US foothold"
nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/…
Santa Clara County "flu" season Jan-Mar 2020 looks a little different than prior years
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Where would we be without the US @COVID19Tracking project? Besides tracking testing everywhere, today a preprint review of 10 serology tests: "very heterogeneous performance"
covidtestingproject.org/index.html
dropbox.com/s/cd1628cau092…
@USCF @czbiohub @UCBerkeley @igisci 🙏
Good to see @apoorva_nyc write about this and acknowledge their exceptional effort
nytimes.com/2020/04/24/hea…
Clarification on the 2 projects that arose out of voids:
@COVID19Tracking tracks testing, essentially replacing @CDCgov for this important function
and
covidtestingproject.org/index.html Covid-19 Testing Project (no @twitter handle), taking on @US_FDA role
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1. Some hard facts to explain why
Testing, testing, testing is not enough
In our @RockefellerFdn action plan we called for 35 million tests/week, scaling up over the next 6 months rockefellerfoundation.org/national-covid… Others have called for 35 million/day
2. We need a massive number of tests now, daily, but it has taken the US several weeks just to get to <5 million total. Even with the recruitment of academic & industry labs (as we advocated), it'll take time & the big N of tests, while desirable, are ambitious, to say the least.
3. Besides practical limitations of doing tests for >330 million people, once is not enough. A negative test could turn positive the next day. There is a major issue still w/ false negatives. Testing every week (or more frequent) would be ideal, but that's even more impractical.
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Some new insights about presymptomatic and asymptomatic transition and timing in @NEJM report today
nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.105…
Asymptomatic #COVID19, the "Achilles' Heel of controlling the pandemic"
nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.105…
Smart editorial emphasizing viral load equivalence, viable virus by culture, the use of masks, need for unprecedented measures, by @UCSF @UCSF_ID @DHavlir
Here's our updated summary of the 11 cohorts of asymptomatic which now includes the new @NEJM paper, (an update from @CDCgov March report w/ much more info)
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…
Details:scripps.edu/science-and-me… @ScrippsRTI @scrippsresearch
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